The book covers the linux ipchains packet filter capabilites specificly.
David Lang
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, William Stearns wrote:
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:45:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: William Stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ng Pheng Siong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Brent Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> ML-firewalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> William Stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Second Edition of "Building Internet Firewalls" now available
>
> Good day, Ng and Brent,
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:46:36AM -0700, Brent Chapman wrote:
> > > pages), it now covers Windows NT and Linux as well as UNIX, and it
> >
> > Et tu, Brent?
> >
> > What's the difference between Linux and UNIX?
>
> (The following is my best understanding of the topic, but may not
> be entirely correct)
> Unix is a trademark, originally owned by AT&T, for it's operating
> system. (I believe that trademark has been transferred to The Open
> Group.)
> Linux is an operating system that was written without any of the
> original AT&T Unix source code. It looks and acts like Unix (it
> generally follows the relevant POSIX standards), but does not
> have the right to use that trademark.
> Cheers,
> - Bill
>
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